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The Sephardic Temple of Constanța (), that was also known as the Spanish Rite Temple Israelite, was a
Jewish Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...
congregation and
synagogue A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ...
, located at 18 Mircea Street,
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, in the
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, in the
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region of
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. Designed by Adolf Lintz in the Catalan Gothic style, the synagogue was completed in 1905. The synagogue served the Spanish Jewish community and services were conducted in the
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rite Rite may refer to: Religion * Ritual, an established ceremonious act * Rite (Christianity), sacred rituals in the Christian religion * Ritual family, Christian liturgical traditions; often also called ''liturgical rites'' * Catholic particular ch ...
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History

Sephardic Jews Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...
from
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settled in Constanța in the 1830s and established a congregation. They obtained a plot of land for a cemetery in 1853, and leased land to construct a synagogue in 1867. The Sephardic Temple was built between 1905 and 1908 in a Catalan Gothic
architectural style An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, for ...
following the blueprints of Austrian architect Adolf Lintz and decorated by painter Moritz Finkelstein. The temple was built in the place of the 1867 synagogue, on a piece of land on Mircea Street, a donation from Ismail Kemal Bey. The synagogue was heavily damaged during
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when it was used as an ammunition warehouse, later further damaged by an earthquake in 1977, and was demolished in 1989 under the rule of
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Gallery

Spanish Temple, at 18 on Mircea Street in Constanța, Romania, 1911.jpg, Spanish Temple, 1911 Spanish Temple, at 18 on Mircea Street in Constanța, Romania, interior, 1941.jpg, Spanish Temple, interior, 1941 Spanish Temple, at 18 on Mircea Street in Constanța, Romania, interior, 1942.jpg, Spanish Temple, interior, 1942


See also

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History of the Jews in Romania The history of the Jews in Romania concerns the Jews both of Romania and of Romanian origins, from their first mention on what is present-day Romanian territory. Minimal until the 18th century, the size of the Jewish population increased after ...
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List of synagogues in Romania This list of synagogues in Romania contains active, otherwise used and destroyed synagogues in Romania. The list of Romanian synagogues is not necessarily complete, as only a negligible number of sources testify to the existence of some synagogu ...


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1830s establishments in Wallachia 1989 disestablishments in Romania 20th-century synagogues in Romania Buildings and structures demolished in 1989 Buildings and structures in Constanța Demolished buildings and structures in Romania Destroyed synagogues Former synagogues in Romania Gothic Revival architecture in Romania Gothic Revival synagogues Jewish organizations established in the 1830s Sephardi synagogues Sephardi Jewish culture in Romania Spanish-Jewish diaspora in Europe Synagogues completed in 1908 {{Romania-synagogue-stub